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Comment Love it or leave it (Score 1) 548

Either love programming for it's own sake or find a different job.
Nobody sees a software engineer as a true engineer, so you'll spend a lot of time dealing with stupid people who insist they know how to do your job better than you. These include (but are not limited to); bosses, managers, HR people, sales & marketing people, customers, clients, business partners (atleast their non-IT staff).
Unless you thoroughly enjoy programming, you'll quickly burn out.

Comment Re:C++ is not the language you start with (Score 1) 548

Exactly.
First learn assembly.
Only then, when you understand what a computer actually does, move onto to gradually higher level languages.
Until you finally end up with a popular language like Java or C# and can still understand what's going on instead of simply rote learning APIs.

Comment Re:Average people just don't like hipsters. (Score 5, Insightful) 341

A hipster is somebody who would suddenly get a different taste if (and because) you'd like their taste.
They are people who so desperately want to be seen as different that they end up all being the same.

It's like how children want to be adults, but adults don't care about being adult.
Hipsters want to be interresting, but interresting people don't care about being interresting.

Comment Re:Why did they pick such a bad buzzword? (Score 2) 98

I don't mind "internet of things" so much; it's devices using the internet without human interaction. I think the hype maxed out on that back when we were all expecting internet-connected fridges. Nowadays we actually have a few of those and are a bit more sane about what they can and cannot do.

As for "cloud"; it's just an empty marketing phrase. It cannot have a regular hypecycle, because at the end of every hypecycle is a phase of normal, sane use of the technology. There simply isn't any technology to use (other than plain internet).

I'd combine them and call it the "cloud of things" for ultimate buzzwordiness; it can mean anything.

Comment Re:Its nonsense (Score 1) 391

His website proves itself false. He claims it was founded in 1988; however Whois records for the domain only go back to 2000, and the web address doesnt appear in the Wayback Machine until 2003.

Neither of these mean anything. You can buy a domain name years after founding a business, you can even change names or get a different domain name at a later time. Wayback machine doesn't archive every single website, nor does it archive them from the very start. I remember back then Wayback machine didn't archive anything unless somebody explicitly searched for the domain in Wayback machine.

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